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Film Review: Forbidden City (La città proibita) 紫禁城 (2025) - Italy Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critic Circle of Australia) I rated it 7.5/10 Rating: ★ ★ ★ 1/2 Support my reviews by buying me a Coffee! https://buymeacoffee.com/neofilmblog Support our reviews by buying from official DVDs / Blu Rays at NeoFilmShop.com Gabriele Mainetti loves Rome the way Fred Astaire loved a tuxedo: as something to be tested, stretched, and sent spinning into places it was never meant to go. In They Call Me Jeeg, he gave the city a radioactive superhero. Now, in Forbidden City (La città proibita), he gives...

Film Review: Kill 'Em All 2 狂風廝殺2 (2024) - USA / Italy Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critic Circle of Australia) I rated it 5/10 Rating: ★ ★ 1/2 Support my reviews by buying me a Coffee! https://buymeacoffee.com/neofilmblog Support our reviews by buying from official DVDs / Blu Rays at NeoFilmShop.com There is a specific, almost melancholy patience required to watch the late-period filmography of Jean-Claude Van Damme. It is the patience of watching a once-unstoppable force of nature learn to exist as a landscape feature. In the new film "Kill 'Em All 2," the 63-year-old "Muscles from Brussels" doesn't...

Film Review: Where Have You Been? (ŠTO TE NEMA) (2024) - Bosnia and Herzegovina / Italy / USA / UK Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critic Circle of Australia) I rated it 7.5/10 Rating: ★ ★ ★ 1/2 Support my reviews by buying me a Coffee! https://buymeacoffee.com/neofilmblog Support our reviews by buying from official DVDs / Blu Rays at NeoFilmShop.com There is a moment in Mirko Pincelli’s “Where Have You Been” that captures everything the film is trying to say. The camera lingers on a single ceramic coffee cup, one of thousands laid out in neat, endless rows. It’s empty,...

Film Review: Still Standing (2022) - Hong Kong / Italy / UK Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critic Circle of Australia) I rated it 7.5/10 Rating: ★ ★ ★ 1/2 Support my reviews by buying me a Coffee! https://buymeacoffee.com/neofilmblog Support our reviews by buying from official DVDs / Blu Rays at NeoFilmShop.com The Sindhi Story, a Ghost That Refuses to Fade - There is a particular kind of sadness that comes from looking at a map and realizing the country you were born in no longer exists. For the Sindhi people, that map isn't just outdated; it's torn in half,...